Poupartiopsis

Poupartiopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. The only species is Poupartiopsis spondiocarpus.[1] It is modest-sized forest tree.[2]

Poupartiopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Poupartiopsis
Capuron ex J.D.Mitch. & Daly
Species:
P. spondiocarpus
Binomial name
Poupartiopsis spondiocarpus
Capuron ex J.D.Mitch. & Daly

It is native to Madagascar.[1] It is found in sandy coastal forests.[3]

The genus name of Poupartiopsis is in honour of François Poupart (d. 1708), a French physician, anatomist and entomologist.[4] The Latin specific epithet of spondiocarpus refers to a fossil plant, published in 1897 by Warburg. It was found in Bangka Island, Indonesia.[5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Syst. Bot. Vol.31 on page 338 in 2006.[1][2]

References

  1. "Poupartiopsis Capuron ex J.D.Mitch. & Daly | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. Mitchell, J.D.; Daly, D.C.; Pell, S.K.; Randrianasolo, A. (2013). "Poupartiopsis gen. nov. and its context in Anacardiaceae classification". Systematic Botany. 31 (2): 337–348.
  3. Herrera, Fabiany; Mitchell, John D.; Pell, Susan K.; Collinson, Margaret E.; Daly, Douglas C.; Manchester, Steven R. (2018). "Fruit Morphology and Anatomy of the Spondioid Anacardiaceae". The Botanical Review. 84: 315–393.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. Henry Nathaniel Andrews Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1950, Based ..., Issues 1013-1014, p. 242, at Google Books
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